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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Problem with tools/win-setup.sh

From: Chris Maynard <Chris.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 15:05:42 +0000 (UTC)
Weir, Alan <AWeir@...> writes:

> Suspecting a path issue I compared the win-setup.sh from the 1.4 and 1.7
> releases and found that the four lines of the form:
> 
>       DEST_PATH=`cygpath --dos "$2"`
> 
> Had been modified in 1.7 to remove the –dos flag. I
> added this flag back in and re-ran the setup phase without any errors.
> 
> Why was this flag removed?

The log message for r34375 explains why the change was made.
See: http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc?view=revision&revision=34375